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Re: bIchuSchoHqu''a'



don;t send this to me any more [email protected]

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> From: Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: bIchuSchoHqu''a'
> Date: Friday, 7 November 1997 1:20
> 
> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Susan Farmer wrote:
> 
> > >ja' Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]>:
> > >>   "Love is patient and is kind;  love doesn't envy. Love doesn't
brag,
> > >>   is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek
its
> > >>   own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;  doesn't
rejoice in
> > >>   unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;  bears all things,
> > >>   believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things..."
> > >
> > >
> > >On further reflection, if you absolutely must try to find a single
noun
> > >in the Klingon vocabulary to express the concept that is so wordily
and
> > >carefully explained in the above quote, I can think of one that fits
it
> > >quite well.  Please don't dismiss it immediately; consider it fully
and
> > >try to see what you get if you substitute it for the word "love"
above.
> > >
> > >The word is {batlh}.
> > >
> > 
> > IMHO an *excellect* suggestion.
> 
> Joel's two bit theory of why using the (possibly) wrong word is good:
> 
> If I'd used a word that no one took issue with, would we have had this
> interesting discussion?  Another reason I use "parmaq" in the quote is,
> if-and-when anyone asks about it, it provides an opportunity to discuss
> the history of par'Mach -> parmaq, the sources for tlhIngan Hol
> vocabulary, the slow move of tlhIngan Hol from an idolect to language and
> so forth. 
> 
> 	YMMV
>     |                                               |   
>    ,'._   Dochvam 'oH vuDwIj'e'.  pImlaH vuDlIj.   ,'._ 
>   ' ~   					  ' ~   
> 
> 
> ** joel anderson * [email protected] * http://umn.edu/~joela **
>     *** QI'tu' Holmey ghot Holmey je vIlo'chugh, ***
>  *** 'ach parmaq  vIghajbe'chugh, vaj jIchuSchoHqu' ***   
>   *** [email protected]   ****  [email protected] ***
> 


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